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This calendar covers upcoming US space-industry gatherings, including conferences, symposia, forums, trade-oriented events, and briefings. Typical participants include aerospace and defense professionals, space companies, technology organizations, government and military stakeholders, researchers, and industry associations. The sample spans events in Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and the Washington, DC, area.
Recurring themes include space exploration, satellite communications, missile defense, aerospace and defense applications, training and simulation, and the development of space technologies. Featured programs also connect technical and policy discussions with mission readiness, all-domain operations, commercial space activity, and collaboration among industry, government, and research communities.
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National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) · Orlando, FL
Aerospace & Defense · Robotics & Automation · SpaceThe 2026 conference marks NTSA’s 60th anniversary and centers on the U.S. Army lead-service theme, “Beyond the Battlefield: Training Readiness and Lethality for All-Domain Dominance!” The program combines executive presentations, technical papers, tutorials, professional development workshops, special events, and Next Big Thing talks focused on modeling, simulation, training, education, AI, autonomous systems, synthetic environments, operational test and evaluation, acquisition modernization, digital engineering, digital twins, cyber and information warfare, and the defense industrial base. Featured content includes an Industry Keynote by Brandon Tseng, President & Co-Founder, Shield AI; a Featured Government Keynote by Amy Henninger, SES, Ph.D., Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), DoW; and senior-leader discussions involving LTGEN Austin, USMC; MAJ GEN Cropsey, USAF; and MAJ GEN Smith, USSF. Special events include the Congressional M&S Caucus; Digital First discussions on defense acquisition through AI, digital engineering, simulation, and digital twins; Building an AI Ready Military Force; a Naval Aviation Flag Officer Panel; NATO mission-space digital twins; Air Force maintenance training; cyber, electromagnetic, wargaming, and information warfare; and program briefs on training acquisition and the All-Domain Marine. The program also includes perspectives from government, industry, academia, and international partners.
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Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS) — SpaceCom | Space Congress · Orlando, FL
Aerospace & Defense · Robotics & Automation · SpaceSpaceCom, in collaboration with NASA, combines a conference program and expo focused on commercialization, procurement, investment, business growth, and technology commercialization across the space economy. Program tracks include Advance, covering infrastructure, manufacturing, mobility, workforce, supply chains, and industrial execution; Discover, covering market demand, investment trends, procurement priorities, policy, law, governance, and commercial scale; Explore, covering Artemis, lunar and cislunar infrastructure, human exploration, science, and space resources; and Innovate, covering AI, autonomy, robotics, commercial LEO destinations, nuclear power and propulsion, spacecraft servicing, and emerging technologies. Scheduled sessions include “Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Hidden Infrastructure Bottlenecks,” “Policy, Law, and Governance for the New Space Age,” “Powering the Next Frontier: Nuclear Power and Propulsion,” “Building the Moon Base,” “Commercial-Government Co-Investment: How Space Infrastructure Gets Funded,” “Launch Is Logistics: Scaling High-Cadence Access to Space,” “Mission Control, Rewritten: When AI Agents Move from Advice to Action,” “Additive Manufacturing of Regolith Composites for Rapid Space Infrastructure,” and “What Smart Money Looks For: Due Diligence in the Emerging Space Economy.” Named speakers and featured guests include Clayton Anderson, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Mark Boggett, James Tralie, Brian Hughes, Chris Kemp, Jacki Cortese, Dwight Deneal, Kathleen Karika, Jeremy Parsons, Matthew Ramsey, Todd Romberger, Marshall Smith, Steve Creech, Gabriel Swiney, Kevin Murphy, Jonathan Bal, and other government, industry, academic, and investment leaders. The program also includes an invite-only executive forum.
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Space & Missile Defense Symposium (SMD) · Huntsville, AL
Aerospace & Defense · SpaceA strategic forum for industry leaders, government officials, and technical experts focused on space and missile defense. Featured organization updates include Space and Missile Defense Command, Space Command, GDA DRPM, T2COM, CUAS, Northern Command, PAE Fires, and the Missile Defense Agency. Interactive panels cover SPACECOM, Missile Defense System Next, International Space, INDOPACOM, Industry, Next Generation Space and Missile Defense, and PAE Fires. The program also includes a Technology Track with technical paper presentations, Small Business Showcase presentations, and an exhibit hall featuring technology and product exhibitors. Named speakers include senior leaders from USASMDC, U.S. Space Command, U.S. Northern Command, the Missile Defense Agency, Golden Dome for America, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center, and PAE Fires.
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